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  2. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). [1] Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories .

  3. List of fan wikis - Wikipedia

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    Wikia then began to assimilate independent fan wikis, such as Memory Alpha (a Star Trek fan wiki) and Wowpedia (a World of Warcraft fan wiki). [7] In the late 2010s—after Fandom and Gamepedia were acquired and consolidated by the private equity firm TPG Inc.—several wikis began to leave the service, including the RuneScape, Zelda, and ...

  4. Talk:Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    Fictional fictional characters are a valid topic; what is at dispute is only that name for them. A fictional fictional character is a character who only occurs in a story-within-a-story, if that story occurs complete only within the scenario of another fiction story and not in the real world. An example is the Captain Proton characters.

  5. Category:Frame stories - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to frame stories, a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or more other stories within it.

  6. Frame story - Wikipedia

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    The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or more other stories within it. The frame story may also be used to inform readers about aspects of the secondary narrative(s) that may otherwise be hard to understand. This should not be confused with narrative structure. [1] [2] [3] A notable example is the 1001 Nights or The Decameron.

  7. Fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...

  8. Alternative universe (fan fiction) - Wikipedia

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    The author of an alternative universe story thus can use the same characters, but send them down different paths to achieve a completely different plot. AU stories are also sometimes used in official, though typically non-canonical, story lines, written by the creators of the original canon material.

  9. Story arc - Wikipedia

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    A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story. It can also mean an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television , comic books , comic strips , board games , video games , and films with each episode following a dramatic arc . [ 1 ]